What really is Web 2.0. To programmers its
all about Ajax and Flash. But to those who know- web 2.0 is
about social interaction using new media. As media changes,
so too does the way groups communicate.
Watch this video on Web 2.0 as it takes you on a journey
through web 2.0. You'll soon get the picture.....no pun intended!
Key Web 2.0 messages here are:
Web 2.0 Information
Text is linear - Text is unlinear when written on paper -
Digital text is moveable - Digital text is above all- hyper
- hypertext can link - virtually anywhere.
Web 2.0 Websites
Most early websites were written in HTML - HTML was designed
to define the structure of a web document. - As HTML expanded,
more elements were added - Including stylistic elements like
B for bold and I for italics - In other words, form and content
became inseparable in HTML. See Go2Web20.com
Directory for list of key web 2. websites.
Web 2.0 Freedom
Digital Text can do better - Form and content can be separated
- XML was designed to do just that - CNN.com
- So the data can be exported, free of formatting constraints
- XML facilitates automated data exchange - two sites can
'mash' data together - flickr maps - Who will
organize all of this data? - TAG - del.icio.us - digital
ethnography hypermedia anthropology - We will - You will -
Google - XML + U & Me
Web 2.0 Network
Social Networking for Productive People - WORLD CHANGING
ANOTHER WORLD IS HERE - Current Anthropology - AESonline.org
- Google - With form separated from content, users did
not need to know complicated code to upload content to the
web - Beyond
Etext - There's a blog born every half second -
and it's not just text - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
- Upload Photos - Anthropology club
Who or What is Web 2.0?
Create a database-backed web - A database-backed web is different
- the web is different - we are the web - we post - we tag
pictures - teaching the Machine to give names - we forge a
link - we teach it an idea - 100 billion times per day humans
click on a Web page - the machine is us.
The Web 2.0 World
Digital text is no longer just linking information - Hypertext
is no longer just linking information - The Web is no longer
just linking information - The Web is linking people - Web
2.0 is linking people - Wikipedia - Web 2.0
The Web 2.0 Future
We'll need to rethink - copyright - authorship
- identity - ethics - aesthetics -
rhetorics - governance - privacy - commerce
- love - family - We'll need to rethink
ourselves.
Are you with us? Are you ready?
And A Video Response to the above
Love it or hate it - Web 2.0 is here to stay,
because we ARE Web2.0
